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‘Light You Up’ Cop Threatens to Use Taser on Sandra Bland in New Dash-Cam Video
New dashboard-camera footage has been released showing Sandra Bland’s ill-fated police stop July 10. In the video she is shown arguing with a Texas state trooper over being stopped, an argument that escalates when the officer becomes upset that Bland is not putting out her cigarette. The officer forces Bland from her car after threatening…
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Obama Talks Iran Deal, Jokes About Jon Stewart Leaving in Daily Show Appearance
President Barack Obama sat down with Jon Stewart Tuesday for one of the final tapings of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart featuring the iconic comedian at the helm. With Stewart, Obama talked up several of his most recent accomplishments, including the Iran deal, poking fun at supporters of former Vice President Dick Cheney who…
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University of Cincinnati Campus Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Man: Report
A father of 13, who was recently engaged, was reportedly shot dead by a campus police officer near the University of Cincinnati on Sunday, the Daily Beast reports. According to the report, the UC officer, Ray Tensing, pulled over 43-year-old Sam Dubose about a mile from the university because he did not have a license…
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Target Suing 4 Men Who Stopped Knife-Wielding Attacker on Stabbing Spree
Two years ago, Michael Turner went after a homeless, mentally ill Pittsburgh man who stabbed his friend Jobe Wright in the shoulder for no apparent reason. Turner and his three friends—Wright, Roland Smith and Tyreek Walker—learned that the man, 41-year-old Leon Walls, had gone inside a nearby Target, so they went inside to find the…
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Waller County District Attorney: Sandra Bland’s Death Being Treated ‘Like a Murder Investigation’
Despite police reports that Sandra Bland committed suicide three days after being arrested during a routine traffic stop, the Waller County, Texas, district attorney told news reporters that he is treating the incident “like a murder investigation.” Bland, 28, was stopped July 10 in Prairie View, Texas, by a state trooper for reportedly failing to…
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Youngest Convicted Murderer in US to Be Released From Fla. Prison
In 1999, 12-year-old Curtis Fairchild Jones and his 13-year-old sister, Catherine, were the youngest children to be tried for and convicted of murder. Florida Today reports that Curtis Jones may be freed, barring any setbacks, by the end of July, and his sister by the end of August. According to the newspaper, the then-children, who claimed…
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Ga. Transgender Woman Charges Repeated Sex Assaults in Prison, Again Sues for Safe Housing
Attorneys for a Georgia transgender inmate are attempting to have her moved or, at minimum, want to hear the state prison’s plan to keep her safe after she says she was again sexually assaulted while in prison custody, the Macon Telegraph reports. In February, as an imate at the Baldwin State Prison in Milledgeville, 36-year-old…
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Black Pro-Confederate-Flag Activist Killed in Miss. Car Crash
A black pro-Confederate-flag activist from Oxford, Miss., reportedly died in a car crash after believing he was being chased, the Clarion-Ledger reports. According to the report, Anthony Hervey, 49, was a fixture in Oxford, known for his support of the Confederate flag, for at least the last two decades. Hervey had attended a flag rally…
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Embassies in Cuba and US Reopen After 50 Years
For the first time in 50 years, Cuba and the U.S. will have embassies on each other’s soil, one more step in rebuilding the relationship that was shattered decades ago, USA Today reports. According to the report, on Monday the Cuban flag will officially be raised in Washington, D.C., as part of a daylong series…
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Family Says 19-Year-Old Killed by Tenn. Officer Was Mistaken for Someone Else
A Memphis, Tenn., teen was killed by a police officer over the weekend in what his family says is a case of mistaken identity, WSMV reports. Darrius Stewart, 19, was the passenger in a vehicle that a Memphis Police Department officer stopped for a broken headlight. The officer issued the driver a ticket and released…